Readers Respond: Holidays and hardware

HBSDealer.com asked: “To what extent is your store going after holiday sales this Christmas?”

With 63 votes cast, the clear leader is “Aggressively.”

Here’s the breakdown of responses:

60%: Aggressively. We’re putting the ho-ho-ho into hardware.

22%. Moderately. The usual suspects, and impulse items.

17% Negligibly. We sell hammers, not holidays.

The National Retail Federation forecasts holiday sales to hit about $630 billion this November and December – up 3.7%. That excludes auto, gas and restaurant sales.

The holiday sales poll remains open -- take the poll here.